Music in Kenyan Christianity

Logooli Religious Song

By Jean Ngoya Kidula
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Indiana University Press, 2013

ISBN 978-0-253-00668-4

312 Pages

Summary

This sensitive study is a historical, cultural, and musical exploration of Christian religious music among the Logooli of Western Kenya. It describes how new musical styles developed through contact with popular radio and other media from abroad and became markers of the Logooli identity and culture. Jean Ngoya Kidula narrates this history of a community through music and religious expression in local, national, and global settings.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Note on Spelling and Orthography
List of Abbreviations
1. Prelude
2. Assembly: Logooli Historical, Cultural, and Musical Background
3. Encounter: Avalogooli and Euro-American Religion, Culture, and Music
4. Consolidation: Christian Religious Genres in Logooli-Land
5. Accommodation: Logooli Adoption and Use of “Book” Music
6. Syncretism: Logooli Christian Songs of the Spirit
7. Invocation: Logooli Christian Songs in Contemporary Education and Media
8. Epilogue
Appendix I: Archival and Media House Records
Appendix II: Song Text and Hymn Tune Sources
Glossary of Terms
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Biography

Jean Ngoya Kidula is Associate Professor of Music (Ethnomusicology) at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, University of Georgia. She is co-author (with R. R. King, T. Oduro, J. R. Krabill) of Music in the Life of the African Church.

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PURL 5.6 | Visukulu va Zakayo, “Si gali masahi” (It was not the blood of beasts) and “O Yesu nguyanza” (Oh Jesus, I love you)
PURL 5.5 | Women of Goibei PAG church, “O Yesu nguyanza” (Oh Jesus, I love you)
PURL 5.4 | Focus group of Goibei Women, “Lwa inze ndola” (When I see/survey)
PURL 5.2 | Focus group of Goibei Women, “Yesu oveye lwanda” (Jesus you are a rock)
PURL 5.1 | Women of Goibei PAG church, “Kale mmadiku yago” (In those long ago days)
PURL 4.2 | Jean Kidula, “A tonde”
PURL 3.4 | Jean Kidula, “Elori” (A lorry)
PURL 3.2 | Jean Kidula, “Sisi was Goibei” (We, of Goibei)
PURL 7.2 | Kariokor Friends Choir, “Valimu vayuda” (Traitors are in [our] midst)
PURL 5.8 | Jean Kidula, “Mu mugera gwe liluva” (In the fishing river)
PURL 5.7 | Focus group of Goibei Women, “Lwa avayi vali ni valinda” (While shepherds watched)
PURL 4.1 | Focus group of Goibei Women, “Ni ngusaalilanga” (While I am praying for you)
PURL 8.1 | Focus group of Goibei Women, Women introduce themselves, Set beginning with “Valoji valalila” (Sorcerers will cry)
PURL 6.4 | Focus group of Goibei Women, Song set beginning with “Yesu yasaala.” (Jesus prayed)
PURL 2.6 | Jean Kidula, “Mwilwadze kuli Petero Yilwadza” (Preach as Peter did)
PURL 8.2 | Focus group of Goibei Women, Set featuring “Heri Kuwa na Yesu”
PURL 3.5 | Focus group of Goibei Women, Set beginning with “Mulikhayira yambonyia” (He lifted me up)
PURL 5.12 | Quaker women’s group, “Ndilonda ku inzila” (I will take the road)
PURL 2.1 | Jean Kidula, “Si walinda ndeya” (You did not wait for me to clean up the house)
PURL 2.2 | Jean Kidula, “Lelo kunyoye idimbidi” (We have now acquired one who is deaf and dumb)
PURL 3.3 | Jean Kidula, “Kwinye avaana va Goibei” (We, the children of Goibei)
PURL 2.3 | Jean Kidula, “Long’oli”
PURL 2.4 | Jean Kidula, “Tula ichova” (Come on out)
PURL 3.1 | Women of Goibei PAG church, “Kwenya kulola vamuyanza” (We want to see those who love the [person])
PURL 1.1 | Women of Goibei PAG church, “Vali no vugasu” (Blessed are they)
PURL 7.7 | Francis and Keren Illavadza, “Ulivolela.” (2008 version) (What will you say)
PURL 7.6 | Francis and Keren Illavadza, “Ulivolela.” (1992 version) (What will you say)
PURL 7.5 | Kenyatta University Choir, “Musalaba.” (Kemoli Arrangement) (The cross)
PURL 7.4 | Focus group of Goibei women, “Musalaba” (The cross)
PURL 7.3 | Kariokor Friends Choir, “Lisuvira, Kwinye kogende” (Faith, Let us walk)
PURL 7.1 | Kariokor Friends Choir, “Gendi kwilwadze” (Let us preach)
PURL 6.3 | Focus group of Goibei Women, “Kidaho kyo mwigulu” (The river of heaven)
PURL 6.2 | Jean Kidula, “Ingata yange ufwale” (Vest me with my crown)
PURL 6.1 | Focus group of Goibei Women, “Ligulu lili ihale” (The heavens are yonder)
PURL 5.11 | Avisukulu va Zakayo Imbukule, “Kwake Yesu” (On Jesus [The solid rock])
PURL 5.10 | Focus group of Goibei Women, “Ya kudzera” (He died [The solid rock])
PURL 5.3 | Focus group of Goibei Women, “Njereranga” (I am returning [home])
PURL 5.9 | Women of Goibei PAG Church, “Mukonyi ali himbi” (The great physician)
PURL 2.5 | Jean Kidula, “Lufweye kulanga baba” (Calling him “dad” is over)